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Joh_18:1-2. ʼΕξῆλθε ] from Jerusalem, where the meal, Joh_13:2, had been held. The ἄγωμεν ἐντεῦθεν , Joh_16:31, was now first carried out; see in loc.: πέραν νοῦ χειμ ,. then expresses: whither He went; see on Joh_6:1.
τοῦ Κεδρών ] Genit. of apposition (2Pe_2:6, comp. πόλις ʼΑθηνῶν and the like). On this torrent dry in summer ( χείμαῤῥος , Hom. Il. xi. 493; Soph. Ant. 708; Plat. Legg. v. p. 736 A; Joseph. Antt. viii. 1. 5), ÷ÄãÀøåÉï , i.e. niger, black stream, flowing eastward from the city through the valley of the same name, see Robinson, II. p. 31 ff.; Ritter, Erdk. XV. 1, p. 598 ff. As to the name, comp. the very frequent Greek name of rivers Μέλας (Herod. vii. 58. 198; Strabo, viii. p. 386, et al.).
κῆπος ] According to Mat_26:36, a garden of the estate of Gethsemane. The owner must be conceived as being friendly to Jesus.
ὅτι πολλάκις , κ . τ . λ .] points back to earlier festal visits, and is a more exact statement of detail, of which John has many in the history of the passion. We see from the contents that Jesus offered Himself with conscious freedom to the final crisis. Comp. Joh_18:4.
Typological references (Luthardt, after older expositors: to David, who, when betrayed by Ahithophel, had gone the same way, 2Sa_15:23; Lampe, Hengstenberg, following the Fathers: to Adam, who in the garden incurred the penalty of death) are without any indication in the text.